And the rejection of this motif or this idea in Genesis 1 is pointed and purposeful. It's demythologization.

但《创世纪》第一章中对此模式或观点的否定,是明显且有目的的，它是一种去传奇化的叙述。

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Let's see what happens here, just the motif, one, two, three, four, three four, one two, and then the theme.

让我们看看到底发生了什么,正是动机,一,二,三,四,一遍又一遍,然后是主题

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The Psalmist is going to use this motif when he denounces social injustice, exploitation of the poor and so on.

赞美诗的作者，也常常借用这种思想,谴责社会不公正，对穷人的剥削。

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Second of all the motif of guards who block access to the tree of life suggests that no humans have access to immortality and the pursuit of immortality is futile.

第二点，那些阻止人类接近生命树的守卫,暗示着，任何人类关于永生的尝试,最后都是徒劳一场。

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There are of course, important ways in which Israel's use of the storm god motif diverges from that of other Ancient Near Eastern stories.

当然，犹太人对暴风之神主题的利用,和古代东方的故事，在很多方面有很大的不同。

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But the story as it stands reiterates a motif that we've seen before: that of the threatened destruction of God's creation, or God's people by chaotic waters, and of divine salvation from that threat.

但是这段故事不断的重读我们前面见到过的一个主题：,上帝子民被汹涌的水所威胁,人们不断从那些威胁中的到拯救。

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